Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers
The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. with joint provider Columbia University, is holding its annual scientific CME conference, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers. Brian Fallon, MD, Columbia University is Conference Director. It will be held at the Hilton Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 & 22. The conference is designed for physicians and researchers but the public is invited to register. AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM will be offered by Columbia University to CME-registered physician attendees. The conference features faculty consisting of clinicians and researchers from across the US. Below are the speakers who have confirmed to date.
Patricia V. Smith, BA
Pres, Lyme Disease Assoc., Inc.
Advisory Bd., Columbia Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
Programmatic Panel, TBD, DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
Conference Planning Com./Organizer
Jackson, NJ
Welcome/Overview of Lyme/Introductions
Philip Strandwitz, PhD
CEO and Co-founder, Holobiome, Inc.
Visiting Scholar, Antimicrobial Discovery Center
Department of Biology, Northeastern University
Boston, MA
The Gut-Brain-Axis – Potential Therapeutic Targets
Eric Storch, PhD
Professor and McIngvale
Presidential Endowed Chair
Vice Chair & Head, Psychology
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Daniel E. Sonenshine, PhD
Professor (Emeritus)
Department of Biological Sciences
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
How Climate Change Affects Range Expansion of Tick Vectors and Spread of Tick-borne Disease in North America
Mark J. Soloski, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director for Basic Research, Lyme Disease Research Center
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Host Immune Response in Lyme Borreliosis
Peter Novak, MD, PhD
Division Chief, Autonomic Neurology
Director, Autonomic Laboratory
Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Neurological correlates of Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, and Genetics
University of California
San Diego School of Medicine
San Diego, CA
Metabolomic Features of Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease—Early Results from the
UCSD Lyme-ME/CFS Comparison Study
Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD
President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
Family Practice Physician
Wyoming, MN
Conference Facilitator and Conference Planning Committee
Margaret R. MacDonald, MD, PhD
Research Associate ProfessorLaboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY
Powassan virus: an emerging tick-borne threat
Joanna Lyon, PharmD, MEd, MHS, CHES, BCGP
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Baltimore, MD
The possible association between the human ABCB1 gene and Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome